fnky

ANSI Escape Sequences

Standard escape codes are prefixed with Escape:

• Ctrl-Key: ^[
• Octal: \033
• Unicode: \u001b
• Hexadecimal: \x1B
• Decimal: 27

lukechilds

get_latest_release() {
  curl --silent "https://api.github.com/repos/$1/releases/latest" | # Get latest release from GitHub api
    grep '"tag_name":' |                                            # Get tag line
    sed -E 's/.*"([^"]+)".*/\1/'                                    # Pluck JSON value
}

# Usage
# $ get_latest_release "creationix/nvm"
# v0.31.4

joshbuchea

Semantic Commit Messages

See how a minor change to your commit message style can make you a better programmer.

Format: <type>(<scope>): <subject>

<scope> is optional

Example

chitchcock

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

oakes

Contents

• Why care about Rust?
• The Toolchain
• Creating a New Project
• Modules
• Crates
• Types
• References
• Mutability

dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

bastman

Docker - How to cleanup (unused) resources

Once in a while, you may need to cleanup resources (containers, volumes, images, networks) ...

delete volumes

// see: https://github.com/chadoe/docker-cleanup-volumes

$ docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -qf dangling=true)

$ docker volume ls -qf dangling=true | xargs -r docker volume rm

inkrement

#!/bin/bash

OUTDIR=.

while read -r db ; do
  while read -r table ; do

  if [ "$db" == "system" ]; then
     echo "skip system db"
     continue 2;

holyjak

#!/usr/bin/env bb
(ns oidc-client
  "Get end-user access token from an OIDC provider, caching the access/refresh token in an encrypted file. Code in https://babashka.org
   Usage:
   
       /path/to/oidc_client.clj
   
   When there are no cached, valid tokens, it will open a browser with the OIDC provider login URL and start a HTTPS-enabled
   callback server on localhost. Make sure that the resulting redirect_uri is registered with your provider.
  

pylover

# Extracted using: $ unzip -p lib/pycharm.jar com/jetbrains/python/PyBundle.properties | grep -B1 INSP.NAME | grep '^#' | sed 's|Inspection||g' | sed -e 's|#\s\{,1\}|# noinspection |'

# noinspection PyPep8
# noinspection PyPep8Naming
# noinspection PyTypeChecker
# noinspection PyAbstractClass
# noinspection PyArgumentEqualDefault
# noinspection PyArgumentList
# noinspection PyAssignmentToLoopOrWithParameter
# noinspection PyAttributeOutsideInit